Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 61

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
 Tennessee Williams
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.
 Murray Rothbard
Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
 Nikolay Chernyshevsky
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
 Alexander Scriabin
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
 Richard Cobden
It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
 Caryl Chessman
Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.
 Hildegard Hamm-Brucher
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
 Martin Niemoller
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
 William Glasser
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
 Friedrich Ratzel
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
 Patrick Henry
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
 Ibrahim Babangida
Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.
 Lewis H. Lapham
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
 Frank Lloyd Wright
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
 Loretta Lynch